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Ann Baum (Johnston)

Today is the day!: Essential Q's for Using Digital Tools in Your Classroom - 3 views

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    "Thanks to the awesome CFF Coach Listserv from Pennsylvania for their collaboration on this list! These essential questions are to help to define what the 'good use' of technology looks like. They are meant to promote thinking about whether the use of technology is meaningful and relevant to the learning. Many of these questions could start with the word "Will" and be followed up with the question, "How?" I chose to start with how, since I think will is too easy to answer with a "Yes." The questions are phrased in a way that would be used in the Before of a Before-During-After coaching consultation or while designing a lesson. With some tweaking, the questions could also be used in the During phase - watching a lesson in action, or the After phase - for reflection."
Ann Baum (Johnston)

Best First Kids' Apps | Common Sense Media - 4 views

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    Essential Apps for Kids and Teens Starter Kits for iPad, iPhone, Android, and Kindle Fire
Donald Burkins

7 Essential Principles of Innovative Learning | MindShift - 4 views

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    1. Learners have to be at the center of what happens in the classroom 2. Learning is a social practice and can't happen alone 3. Emotions are an integra part of learning 4. Learners are different 5. Students need to be stretched, but not too much 6. Assessment should be for learning, not of learning 7. Learning needs to be connected across disciplines. cf. the Jenaplan School, Germany
Lauri Brady

iPad App Teaches Students Key Skill for Success in Math, Science, Engineering - 0 views

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    "Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed an iPad app that helps students learn spatial visualization, an essential skill for doing well in science, math and engineering. They have been testing the app during a high school summer program at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, as well as on undergraduate students at the school."
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    Although the app is not released yet, they do have a form to sign up for news releases and updates on its progress.
Michelle Krill

NASA Student Engineering Design Challenge - 1 views

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    "Are you ready to solve the challenges of space? Join the RealWorld-InWorld NASA Engineering Design Challenge! This is a unique education initiative that targets students in grades 9-12 and encourages them to explore and build skills essential for successful careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) through two phases of project-based learning and team competition"
Lauri Brady

National Education Technology Plan 2010 | U.S. Department of Education - 2 views

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    "The National Education Technology Plan, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology, calls for applying the advanced technologies used in our daily personal and professional lives to our entire education system to improve student learning, accelerate and scale up the adoption of effective practices, and use data and information for continuous improvement. It presents five goals with recommendations for states, districts, the federal government, and other stakeholders. Each goal addresses one of the five essential components of learning powered by technology: Learning, Assessment, Teaching, Infrastructure, and Productivity."
Michelle Krill

SCOE: Resources: For the Classroom: Reading/Language Arts: Vocabulary/Comprehension - 0 views

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    "Complex issues of academic language (e.g. vocabulary, syntax, grammar, semantics) impact the choices teachers must make about literacy instruction. Increasing evidence suggests that academic language is today's "hidden curriculum" - rarely explicitly taught, but essential to success in the academic world. This has enormous implications for all educators, from pre-kindergarten to college. The following websites support inquiry into this complex topic."
Michelle Krill

OpenZine - Make your own magazine. Webzine, create a free website, free hosting. - 0 views

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    "OpenZine is a social publishing platform with browser based tools that provides regular people with the essential tools to create really amazing things, display it with equal quality and enables them to socially share, control and manage their ideas. The best way to describe what OpenZine provides is by understanding how magazines work. Magazines have a staff of writers, photographers, designers, illustrators and editors that create & contribute. Here at OpenZine you create & contribute on those same principles but your resources are other OpenZine users! "
Donald Burkins

bloomsapps - 4 views

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    "Using Blooms Taxonomy in education is a highly effective way to scaffold learning for the students. With the recent popularity and pervasive nature of iOS devices in school districts it is essential for educators to understand how to implement Blooms in the classroom using the apps that are available. While this list is by no means fully comprehensive, it will assist educators in getting started when implementing iOS devices in the classroom. This site will change almost daily as it will be updated with new and exciting apps! "
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    Don, I was really excited to see this. But, take a look at the apps in the Creating level. I think they prove my point that the ipad isn't a serious player, yet. If those are prime examples of what can be Created on the ipad, then I still say that it's not the answer to Education's persistant questions. It's a great personal device but not one for school.
karen sipe

Smithsonian Education - Lesson Plans - 2 views

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    This site provides a variety of ready to use lesson plans on a variety of topics. The lessons have an essential question as well as an outline of strategies and activities that can be used to teach them. In addition, if appropriate, graphic organizers will be provided for use with the lessons. When you get to the site use the Find a Lesson Plan search feature to easily see if there is a lesson that aligns to your curriculum.
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    Ready to use lesson plans from the Smithsonian. Nice Site. Great resource for students and kids.
karen sipe

Blooms apps - 1 views

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    Using Blooms Taxonomy in education is a highly effective way to scaffold learning for the students. With the recent popularity and pervasive nature of iOS devices in school districts it is essential for educators to understand how to implement Blooms in the classroom using the apps that are available.
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    This site includes apps aligned to blooms taxonomy.
Marge Runkle

20 Essential Tricks Every Skype User Should Know - Page 1 | Maximum PC - 0 views

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    "Spend a little time learning Skype and you'll soon discover it's much more than a one-trick pony. Sure, Skype's bread and butter is still its ability to let users make phone calls using their broadband connection, but there's so much more you can do with this versatile app."
Carol Mortensen

David Jakes Presentation Resources - 140 Characters and Beyond: Extend Your Use of Twitter - 3 views

  • Do you want to know what I had for breakfast?  How bad traffic is in Chicago rush hour?  Of course not!  But by now, you've probably have had a chance to try out Twitter and engage in the actual conversations that can help you become an active member of an always-on learning network.  This session will help you extend and add value to your Twitter experience by demonstrating a variety of new Twitter tools that can serve to create a more comprehensive and capable platform for learning.  Leave the session with an understanding of how to enlarge the affordances of Twitter and how to make it an essential part of your practice.
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